PETER STOOD UP

PRAYER MOMENT 

Easter Monday 6 April 2015

PETER STOOD UP

Pause. Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading: Then Peter stood up with the eleven and addressed them in a loud voice, ‘Men of Israel, listen to what I am going to say.’  (Acts 2:14, 2-32)

Reflection. This is an astonishing change. There was Peter cowed and broken during the passion and now full of courage speaking to the Jews. What has happened? There is one word for it; Easter. We can describe the passion. We know all about suffering. But we have no idea about the resurrection. We have no experience, no parable. Matthew and Mark record that Jesus said, ‘you will see me in Galilee.’ Galilee stands for the ordinarfy business of life, work, family and community. You will see me when you recall my words and actions there. You will understand their veiled message of liberation. You will know that each one of us has gifts. We grow and flourish insofar as we use these gifts. We become human. We become alive. We experience Easter.    

Prayer. Lord, help us really rejoice in Easter. You touch our lives as you touched the lives of the first disciples. Teach us to welcome your appearance in our lives in the way we live and use our gifts. Amen.

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